Track for door-hangers.



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TRACK .FOR DOOR HANGERS.

(Application mea'oce. 19, 1899.)

(no Model.)

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UNITEDv 'STATES PATENT Orr-Ion.

ELIAS nowns DoANE,` or ToNIoA, ILLINOIS.

TRACK FoR DooR-HANcERs.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,751, dated J une' 12, 1900.

Application iiled October 19, 1899.' Serial No. 734,074. (No model.)

T0 ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIAS Howns DOANE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tonica, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Track for Door-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to doorhan gers, and has for its object to provide an improved track for supporting the door. It is further de-V signed to provide improved means for con veniently securing -the track to the wall of a building, so as to maintain the track in rigid condition and prevent sagging thereof, and also to provide improved stops for limiting the movement of the door in opposite directions, and finally to provide adjust-able fastening devices, whereby the track may be accommodated to walls which are unevenon account of warped or shrunken boards.

To these ends the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details may bemade within the scope of the appended claims'without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a door-hanger track constructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View taken vertically through one of the fastenings which support the track and` showing a .door suspended from the track. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view illustrating the manner of adjusting the track to a shrunken or warped wall. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of one end of the track, having a door suspended therefrom and showing the improved stop for limiting the movement of the door.

Corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings are designatedby like char` aeters ofV reference.

Referring to the drawings, l designates the wall of a building, to which the track 2 is secured by means of the presentV invention.

The track consists of a continuous straight* rail or strip of metal, disposed edgewise, and connected at a plurality of points to the wall by means of the fastenings 3. Each ofthese fasteniugs comprises a straight screw-threaded shank, which is driven into iheouter side of the wall and has its outer, end passing loosely through a suitable opening formed substantially midway between the upper and lower edges of the track. Provided upon the threaded portion of the shank is' a pair of clamping-nuts 4 and 5, respectively, between which the track is clamped, and thereby fixedly connected to the fastening.

To brace each fastening there is provided a hanger 6, formed from a single length of strap metal or of a single casting, having its upper end provided with an attaching-ear 7 for the reception of a screw or other fastening 8, whereby the hanger is secured to the wall at a point above the track. The intermediate body portion of the hanger inclines one Vside thereof to accommodate the door in its open position and is secured intermediate of its ends by means of a plurality ofthese fastening devices. It will thus beapparent that the track may be readily put up, as the rail is originally providedwitli openings for the reception of the fastenings 3, and after the rail has been fitted to the fastenings the clamping-nuts are tightened against the rail.

By reference to Figs. l and 4 it will be noted that the respective end hangers l1 at each end of the track have their pendent feet 9 located against the outer side of the track, whereby the inclined portion oi' the hanger extends transversely across the upper edge of the track upon which the wheel 12 of the door-hanger 13 travels. Thus it will be ap-v parent that the said wheel will come into con# tact with the inclined body of the hanger 6, which latter therefore forms a stop to limit the movement of the door 14.

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The track is adapted to that class of sliding doors commonly provided with single- Wheel hangers located at orunear the respectiveoppositeedges of the door, so that each Wheel will be stopped by the respective end hanger, and thereby limit the movement of the door in opposite directions.

The means for accommodating or adj nsting the track to a warped or shrunken wall has been shown in Fig. 3, in which the wall l presents an uneven surface, and to maintain the rail in a straight line it becomes necessary to set some of the fastenings 3 farther into the Wall. This is accomplished by reason of the fastcnings passing loosely through the respective openings in the rail and also bythe provision of the nuts and 5 at opposite sides of the rail, as will be understood.

Having thus described the invention, what ters Patent, is-

1. A track for sliding doors and the like,

rising hangers the end hangers extending D b 3 D b across the upper edge of the rail, forming iy w stops to limit the movement of the door in 0pand `ers being located against the outer side of the rail, the body of said latter hangers extendving transversely across the upper edge of the rail, and clamping-nuts located at opposite l sides of the rail, and clamping the latter to v the hangers, substantially as shown and described.

is claimed, and desired to be secured by Let- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signature in i the presence of two Witnesses. comprising a rail, and fastening devices coml ELIASHOWES DOANE.

Witnesses: GEO. D. HILTABRAND, MATT BIERs. v 

